Invisible housing
March 14th, 2012
The brief extracts from the report’s index show the areas covered by the report and housing seems to be absent. As always we are prepared to stand corrected. Housing’s impact…
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Maintaining Indigenous houses in South Australia
March 9th, 2012
An interesting interview with one of the people charged with delivering these services to a remote location in the remote northern region of South Australia is attached. HH has underlined…
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Connecting the dots to where?
February 7th, 2012
Healthabitat presented a clear choice …….continue the current policy and implementation or make change based on proven results. For more discussion of the above brief points see the BIG ISSUE…
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Spot the problems?
December 18th, 2011
OK so let us look at a few of the issues raised in the article Is the transitional accommodation really tents, did the citizens of Elcho Island choose this and…
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Loss of Indigenous Housing Data
November 29th, 2011
A staff member of the AIHW revealed: We no longer have a contract with FaHCSIA to work on the FHBH data cubes, so will not be able to do any…
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The end of FHBH and the future
November 16th, 2011
The last 2-year contract was aimed at allowing state governments around Australia, now responsible for Indigenous housing, to use and integrate the Housing for Health method, principles and products into…
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Linking political accountability to equitable development
October 31st, 2011
Imagine if the procedures used by TI were applied to the largest Indigenous housing program for remote areas ever completed in Australia’s history. The attached outline of a Development Integrity…
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Money Money Money
September 29th, 2011
Healthabitat supports the overall goal and scope of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing and the total program budget of $5.5 billion dollars. However, we cannot get the…
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Fix work compared
September 22nd, 2011
So when the NT Intervention kicked off with a bang, the federal government of the time shouted about the Community Clean Up project. This project was to survey and fix…
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House improvement in the midst of policy chaos
September 20th, 2011
Running from 1999 to 2011, the end of the FHBH program reveals some important facts. Housing around Australia has not improved in over a decade despite the money spent by…
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World Habitat Award win
September 1st, 2011
Thanks to all that supported the Housing for Health work that won the World Habitat Awards for 2011. The win is important particularly at a time when the Australian Government…
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Radio National – Big Ideas – Don Palmer
August 4th, 2011
Despite the best of intentions, chronic health problems continue to plague Indigenous communities particularly for those in central Australia. Don Palmer suggests strategies to improve Indigenous health and urges that…
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